This year I wanted to make a bunch of our Christmas gifts and since I had picked up cooking on the regular again, I decided those handmade gifts would be edible. I also wanted to use all the glass jars that I had recently swapped over to plastic for storing staple cooking ingredients in that were now taking up precious space in our cabinets. For the kids, I found a recipe for gingerbread pancake mix and decided that would be the focus of a gift bag. Everyone loves pancakes and those who say they don't have either not had really good pancakes, or are missing a part of their soul. I filled my largest jars with the mix, added a tag with instructions on how to mix and cook it, and added a few accessories to help jazz up breakfast. A gingerbread man cookie cutter went in to help shape the pancakes when they are cooked. A dozen gingerbread cookies were included with the intention of crumbling them and adding as a topping to the pancakes as well as a hand-mixed jar of sprinkles. ...